we'll see you back here on monday. i'm bret baier and happy new i'm bret baier and happy new year from washington. captioned by closed captioning services, inc. >> so how the fed are telling it there was a second person detained in the christmas day plane plot. plus, a possible motive for the deadly attack on a cia base in afghanistan and rush limbaugh speaking out about his health care. i'm gregg jarrett in for shepard smith and the news begins now. >> who will take charge of security in the skies? week after an attempted attack, new problems for the president's pick to lead the transportation security administration. why the nominee is correcting the record about something he calls a grave error in judgment. a devastating attack on u.s. intelligence on the afghan-pakistan border, new details on the bombing that

killed seven cia workers, what it tells us about our strategy in the region, the risks and the future of the fight. and as the ball dropped and the crowds cleared, they were watching. >> for our command post, post 8. >> catherine herridge takes us where reporters have never gone before. >> how tough is it? >> behind the scenes with the fbi at the biggest party of the ye year. >> but first almost a year after president obama took office, those in charge of keening us safe when we fly do not have a boss. running the transportation security administration. now, one week after the attempted bombing of northwest flight 253 there is brand new trouble. errol southers admitting he

inadvertently misled a hearing only after a day the committee approved him. molly henneberg live in washington with more, molly, what's changed in his story? >> hi, gregg, initially southers, a fbi agent told a senate committee he asked a police department employee to look into some law enforcement records on his then estranged wife's new boyfriend and that was back in the late '80s. later southers told the committee that he personally had looked into those confidential records, what he now calls a grave error in judgment. southers wrote to the senators, quote, this incident was over 20 years ago, i was distraught and concerned about my young son and never in my career since has there been any recurrence of this sort of conduct. southers says the initial recounting to the senate committee was an inadvertent mistake, gregg. >> the republicans say they have other concerns about the nominee, correct? >> right.

south carolina's republican senator jim demint says he wants assurances that southers will not support tsa employees seeking to unionize, if he's confirmed. listen to this. >> this is the last thing we need to do right now. our airport security needs to have maximum flexibility, the ability to move people around and change protocols and it makes absolutely no sense to submit security of our airports and of the passengers here in this country to collective bargaining with unions. >> senate democrats say they intend to bring southers nomination to a vote when they return later this month. gregg. >> molly, so is the white house still firmly standing behind their nominee? >> yes, the white house says southers meets the standards to be head of the tsa, that the relevant senate committees have cleared him and that he should be confirmed and a spokesman for the president says southers has the support of the ranking republican on the senate homeland security committee, susan collins, as well as the

republican governor of california arnold schwarzenegger, for whom southers worked as a homeland security advisor, gregg. >> molly henneberg live in washington, molly, thanks. a fox urgent right now, tonight the feds are confirming they did question a second passenger from flight 253 after the botched christmas day bombing. two other passengers say they saw the whole thing, but the government originally denied it. curt haskell told us his story earlier this week on studio b. >> what i saw was bomb sniffing dogs were brought in. one of them made a reaction to one of the carry on bags of a different indian gentleman who i would say was around age 30. they immediately escorted him to an interrogation room where he was held for about an hour at which point he came out, was handcuffed and taken away. >> and curt's wife in that picture backed him up. fox news now can confirm investigator questioned the man and searching his bag, they

didn't find anything so they let him go. in previous statements the fbi would only say that one man was arrested that man umar mutallab. much more on the air scare coming up on the bottom of the hour. more on the taliban bomb that go killed seven cia employees in afghanistan. the press is reporting that the pakistani taliban claiming the attack was carried out by a cia operative who switched sides. that's what they say. they call the attack revenge for a top militant's death in a u.s. missile strike and reported being met with a load of skepticism. highly unusual for the pakistani taliban to claim credit for anything much less an attack in afghanistan and the cia is not confirming the taliban's claims. well, the attack said to be one of the deadliest in cia history and happened at operating base in the province southeast of the afghan capital of kabul.

cia george little telling the associated press, there is much about the attack that isn't yet known, this much is clear, the cia's resolved to pursue aggressive counterterrorism operations is greater than ever. well, tonight we are learning new details about how the bomber got on to the base, the mistakes that led to the security breach, connor powell reporting from the afghan capital of kabul, connor? >> gregg, the cia was apparently in the process of trying to court the individual who tried to attack bob chapman to bring him in as an intelligence source, now, because the cia was trying to woo him, they allowed him to come on to the base without being checked by security, and that was how he was actually able to bring the bomb on to the base. now, i'm told the cia often tried to build up trust and gain a relationship with informants, but not searching someone is unusual. the cia is still investigating the attack, trying to learn more about what actually happened and

how he was invited on to the base and not searched. but i'm told the attack will not change how the military and how the cia recruits afghans to be a part of their intelligence network because this was a mistake, this is not the standard operating procedure. so, going forward, things will not change. it will go back to the way it should have been done, not the way it was actually carried out on wednesday. now, the taliban are claiming that the individual who attacked bob chapman on wednesday was a member of the afghan military today, an afghan spokesman for the military defense denying, saying it's not possible. going forward, there is a risk to american and international troops who work with afghan soldiers 0 work with afghan locals because at the heart of general mcchrystal's strategy is pairing afghan security force was international and american troops, trying to mentor, trying to build up the security forces here and it's a risk, but it's a

risk that u.s. officials, gregg, say must be taken in order to turn this country around. connor powell in kabul, afghanistan. well, the attack is bringing brand new attention to the role that america's spy agency is playing in this dangerous area of the world. the cia undergoing major changes in recent years, agents moving choser to the front lines and playing a more direct role in our military operation as we battle militants not only in afghanistan but across the border in pakistan as well. caroline shively has been looking into that from washington. i understand the cia plays a big role in the unmanned drone program. tell us about that. >> sure, gregg. chapman is reportedly where a lot of the manage for unmanned drone strikes are originated, not the execution, not the launch, that's done elsewhere, but the guys at chapman help figure out how to target in afghanistan and across the border in pakistan. now, this attack on chapman proves how dangerous a mission it is for cia agents there, but it's also incredibly

complicated. many analysts say the cia is basically orchestrating the war in pakistan, something the pakistani government denies and that the cia wasn't talk about. also important, there was another drone missile strike just today in the waziristan region of pakistan along the afghan border, it killed three suspected militants in a car. it's a second strike there in just two days, gregg. >> caroline, how is the cia's mission different from that of the military? >> well, there's definitely some overlap. cia agents aren't just information analysts anymore. the cia is getting more and more involved in quasi military operations with the drone attacks and putting together plans to kill top al-qaeda leaders and it's not just in the province. cia add add number of small bases in the southern and eastern part of afghanistan. cia director leon pin netta said because the capabilities improved. it's not just unmanned drones, they handle people on the ground, gregg. >> i'm wondering how big of an impact this will have on the cia. welsh the mission remains

the same and we've heard nothing about a pullout from the region certainly, but it's a devastating blow. deadliest attack on the agency since beirut in '83. >> caroline shively in washington. thanks. in the meantime a brazen and deadly attack demonstrating how big a threat the taliban now poses in pakistan. it happened during a volleyball tournament in the northwest part of the country not far from the lawless tribal region where pakistan's military is battling the taliban. police say a man drove his car on to the field which lies in an a crowded neighborhood and report he decimate add side of a vehicle, causing nearby homes to collapse and killing at least 75 people. investigators say this appears to be a retaliation attack after folks in the area formed militias to try to keep the taliban away. back here in the united states, an ice climber falling hundreds of feet down a canyon and what happened next caught on videotape. plus, we're hearing from rush limbaugh for the first time since he went to the hospital

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>> rush limbaugh is out of the hospital tonight. he says he's feeling great and there's nothing wrong with his heart. the radio talk show host suffered chest pains a couple of days ago at his hotel in hawaii. he says doctors just don't know what caused it but he did not have a heart attack and tests show he has no coronary or artery disease. limbaugh thanking the hospital for taking such very good care

of him and he got in a little political commentary as well. >> the treatment i received here was the best that the world has to offer and based on what happened to me here, i don't think there's one thing wrong with the american health care system. it is working just fine, just dandy and i got nothing special. i got no special treatment other than what anybody else that would have called 911 and had brought in, been brought in with the same kind of symptoms. >> gregg: limbaugh also thanks his fans for the cards, flowers and prayers they've been sending and he's telling americans, especially those of his age, if you have any chest pains, don't mess with it, get to the hospital right away. ships loaded with explosive gas, homes just feet away. it doesn't take a whole lot of imagination to think what could happen in the hand of terrorists in at that kind of a dangerous situation, especially since boston got word that tankers will begin delivering gas from yemen next month.

yemen of course is the country where this guy, umar abdul metal lab reportedly trained with terrorists. and the bombing of the u.s.s. cole that killed 17 american sailors and now boston city leaders trying how to keep the yemeni tankers away. laura ingle has been following the story and joins us now from the new york city news room. first of all, tell us about the gas deliveries. >> hi, gregg, well, if allowed here the delivery in question would cruise into boston harbor and then dock at the l and g terminal in everett. that's what is making many in the boston area alarmed tonight. a government report at that came out concluded that terrorists could cause major damage if they got their hand on one of these types of tankers, slashing a hole in the side, for example, could unleash a fire so intense, it could cause major injuries and burn buildings as far as one third of a mile away and second

degree burns. that's why they're taking a close look at the plan to bring one of these tankers in from yemen. >> it's just a proposal right now, the coast guard, along with the area maritime security committee is reviewing the proposal to try to saesh what additional security procedures need to be put in place. we're coordinating with our local, state and federal partners. >> reporter: that proceed is going on right now. natural liquefied gas has been coming into the harbor from trinidad and egypt, this is the first time that a tanker carrying l and g from yemen. >> gregg: potentially dangerous. what can be done? >> that's what the boston and mayor are trying to figure out. i talked to the everett mayor a short while ago, he told me he's going to be sending out letters monday to call for a summit to get everyone in on the loop, firefighters, residents, what the options are here. he wants improved communication was all agencies and infrastructure improved around

the docking area to be beefed up. the mayor of boston's press office told us the mayor has another idea. here it is, he says, quote, we believe the safest method of unloading such cargo would take place off shore far away from residential neighborhoods and city officials will work to see if that is possible. that of course is not only going to take manpower, but a lot of money and again, u.s. coast guard promises greater inspections and longer than necessary. >> gregg: laura ingle, thanks. former president bill clinton's foundation releasing a list of donors as hillary clinton's first year as secretary of state. addressing concerns about potential conflicts of interest, the list includes donations made since the start of the foundation, but did not reveal how much each contributor specifically gave last year. the charity works around the world on many ashes including aids and health care, among the notable contributors, kuwait and

norway given at least 10 million over the year. bailed out companies aig and citigroup, among the biggest donors, bill gates charity which has contributed more than 25 million dollars. the helicopter crew rescuing an ice climber from a frozen ledge after he fell almost 300 feet. it happened in little cottonwood canyon close to salt lake city, an area very popular with climbers. the sheriff's office says the 37-year-old climber broke his leg and maybe his pelvis. the sergeant says witnesses saw the guy fall and called 911. >> they gave us probably a 30 minute head start to get on scene with the appropriate equipment and personnel and make some discussions on how to get him off the canyon. >> gregg: now, that's the fourth rescue in this very same spot in less than a year. major news out of iraq that involves the lives of american troops. coming up, we're going to tell you why it's being called a significant milestone and a

revealing look at just how combat troops are preparing to leave the war zone and head to another. plus, the death toll continues to rise after a mudslide rolls over an exclusive beach resort, the urgent rescue effort in the danger zone.

>> december, marking the first month since the start of the iraq war when an american troop did not die fighting in the war zone. the commander u.s. general in iraq calling the news a significant milestone. 149 american troops died in iraq last year, that's the lowest number of u.s. deaths in a single year since the war began in 2003. says it's a major sign of progressments that's a fairly significant milestone for us as we continue to move forward. i think it also speaks to the level of violence and how it's decreased over time. >> gregg: and while many recent headlines focus on the next step in afghanistan, troops are starting to focus on the end of their mission in iraq. dominic di-natale reporting from kirkuk in iraq on the upcoming transitions. >> gregg, without shadow of a doubt 2010 will be a landmark year in iraq especially for the u.s. military after eight years of combat, combat troops will

start to withdraw as early as may and hopefully by august of this year. that's the plan according to president obama. some troops will return home, but there are those who will continue to fight over in afghanistan and two of those troop members are with us now. a major and sergeant first class, talk to jim, first of all, you've already served here in iraq and you've served in afghanistan. why do you want to go to afghanistan where the fight is much tougher? >> i think after the last seven years, the blood, sweat and tears our brothers and sisters put into this country and extraordinary work that the iraqi security forces have done to stabilize the country and secure their citizens it's time to return to afghanistan and finish the fight we started in 2001. >> we've been here eight years, how battle hardened is the u.s. military in the fight in afghanistan now. >> the u.s. military is second to none. we are going to take the fight to the taliban as we have and finish it. >> you deal in civil affairs,

sergeant. what are you doing here to help the afghan people. >> our ability to facilitate, providing essential services and forming a stable, stable contract together. >> what specifically are you doing for the hand-to-hand pragmatic approach with the people, the afghan people. >> meeting with different district personalities, leaders in the area, local leadership, and fighting assistance in them, running their own government. >> is it quite transferrable everything you've gained skill-wise. >>ening is ever exactly transferrable, but it's an art not a science. >> best of luck, please stay safe, it's going to be a tough mission. >> as we say most combat troops out by the end of august and depends what happens between elections coming up march and whether we have a period of instability, we'll see, gregg, back to you. >> dominic, thanks. now to a new years disaster to brazil where flooding and mudslides killed at least 25

people, there may be more on the way. it's happening in one of the country's fansiest beach towns, two hours from rio. the mudslide apparently returning after tourists returned to their rooms after a new years celebration. witnesses say some homes collapsed after getting hit with a chunk of land more than 300 yards wide. locals say they've never seen so much rain in the area and more downpours are in the forecast for the necessary few days. they once new freedoms they can no longer enjoy and now, folks in hong kong are demanding that china give them a full democracy, demanding how the country is run. the protests, plus, how china is responding. plus, a new focus on airline security after the attempted attack on christmas day, the new procedures that are implemented and what does the head of the airline that was attacked has to say coming up next. some lunch.

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>> pope benedict xvi delivering a message of world peace in the new year during the first mass of 2010 at st. peter's basilica. appealing for respect of all people and nonviolence just a week after a woman knocked him down on christmas eve. the pontiff then delivers the traditional angeles blessing from the window of his studio overlooking st. peter's square, saying and i quote, to all and everyone i say stop, reflect, and abandon the way of violence. january 1st is the roman catholic church's world day of peace. steps away from the vatican, a

group of italian men drove into a chilly river tiber, continuing a decades old new year's tradition, started in 1946, when a jobless lifeguard leapt into the water to provide his swimming skills. hundreds watched the four italian men plunge from the bridge. the oldest 57 years old. the youngest 17. the river tiber is known to be shallow, cold and muddy this time of year, of course here in america, many families new year's tradition resolve around roses and hundreds lining up this morning for the tournament of roses parade in pass dina, california and calming out for the parade root. grand marshal one of the heroes, captain chestly sullen berger who crash landed an airplane on the hudson in new york.

i'm gregg garrett in for shepard smith. bottom of the hour. christmas day terror attacks should not have happened, his airline has done everything that the feds asked since 9/11 and still, the suspected terrorist made his way on to the northwest flight 253 with a bomb in his pants and delta of course, owns northwest. ceo richard anderson telling workers, quote, having this happen is disappointing to all of us. you can be certain we will make our points very clearly in washington. president obama asks what went wrong and steve centanni is live with the president. he'll be focusing on this problem over the weekend? >> yeah, all weekend long. yesterday with a the deadline to receive the policewomenty information on the two reviews he ordered, one of the watch list and one of our detection capabilities at america's airports and airports around the world and he's going to look over those for the weekend.

he did get a chance to get out and play some golf yesterday and we expect he might get out again today to do something, he worked out at the gym already, but on tuesday, there's a big meeting back at the white house and back in washington, he'll meet with the heads of the different agencies involved in this investigation, including the director of national intelligence, of the cia, the attorney general will be there, a host of agencies will be represented as the president tries to get answers of what went wrong and failure to-- accord to go one administration official, the failure to share information is not going to be tolerated and that's the way it looks that we had information, he wasn't correlated and it wasn't shared. gregg. >> steve, what's happening with airport security? >> well, of course, it's been tightened in the aftermath of this christmas day attack and janet napolitano ordered her two top deputies to go overseas, to visit international airports in africa, europe and the middle east as well as in south america.

and make sure that we're on the same page with all of them to see what can be done to shore up security overseas because after all, domestic travel is only one piece of this. the most dangerous part of course is international travel, that's the way abdul mutallab came in via amsterdam to detroit. there's going to be a meeting what she calls a broad international outreach effort. >> gregg: is the administration still planning to shut down the prison in guantanamo bay? >> well, they're under more pressure to reconsider, but at this point they're saying they're going to go ahead with that plan, it's part of our national security to close it. as one administration official said, this guantanamo prison has been used as a rallying cry and a recruiting tool by al-qaeda so it's in our security interest to close it and as you know, of course, a lot of inmates there, the detainees are yemeni, they've been released and sent back to yemen. this suspect abdul mutallab went to yemen in the couple months preceding his attempted attack and we have information on al-qaeda activity in yemen back

in the summer that they were planning some kind of attack against the u.s. using an unnamed nigerian. so, yemen of course figuring heavily into this, gregg. >> gregg: steve centanni with the president in hawaii. steve, thanks. as we told you abdul farouk abdul mutallab's father warned he might be a threat. the terror suspect made what is being described as a final phone call to his father during which is he reportedly told his dad, this would be his last contact with the family. he says the people he was in yemen were about to destroy his cell phone's sim card rendering the phone useless and apparently led his father that his son might be planning a suicide mission and that's when dad, pictured here, contacted u.s. officials and now there are questions whether property weight was given to the father's warning and whether nigeria could be a safe haven for terrorists. greg burke filed this report

from the suspect's home country of nigeria later today. >> this entire incident cast a spotlight on islam and nigeria, about 75 million muslims in the country. what is quite clear, the extremist version embraced by abdul mutallab is quite different from that of his family. while there are certain sections in the north of the country where the muslims can be extreme, friends of the family tell us they were practicing muslims, but quite moderate and at friday prayer none of the fiery preaching of anti-u.s. rhetoric, but preaching on the beauty of islam. most nigerian muslims may be poor, but not radical. >> nigeria will not be a haven for taliban, we're learning how to co-exist peacefully. >> finally, just to give you an

idea how influential farouk's father is, the equivalent of the head of jp morgan going to the fbi and saying i've got a problem with my son. the only question why they did not treat a man of this stature more seriously. >> gregg: thanks. protesters in hong kong marching to the chinese government's compound demanding democracy. hong kong of course a former british colony that returned to chinese rule in 1997. democracy is promised in the territory's constitution. but the chinese government has ruled that hong kong cannot directly elect its leader until 2017. welsh the protesters beijing's timetable for democracy was much too slow and the crowd stage add peaceful setting after failing to break through police lines. fox news is on the job hunt and if you're within of the 15.4 million currently unemployed americans out there trying to get a job, you know and this is

no cakewalk. well, now, some are finding work helping others sharpen their speech in hopes of becoming a better candidate themselves. >> because we know the importance of massage part, right? >> for natalia, life may sometimes feel a big classroom. >> i have to work, for sure, it's what i do. >> you start here. >> and doren spends much of the week teaching her students at skin beauty school. the rest of her time. >> communicating skills are very important. >> is spent studying english. >> i didn't understand that to be substantially-- i have to improve my english. >> doren moved to the united states from russia eight years ago, but just recently started taking lessons to improve her accent. >> i mean, you speak and they see an accent and okay, okay, what's she going to teach us, how much does she know and that's why i need to improve all the time.

>> many of her students were also born outside of the u.s. and now entering the job market in one of the worst times in history, all admitting their accents could hold them back. >> i have my korean accent is pronounced. i'm trying to fix it, but it doesn't get like easily. >> having an accent isn't a negative. >> experts say the recession and accompanying job shortage has forced more people to take a closer look at themselves. but the traits that may make them less employable, including a strong foreign accent. >> i've worked with clients whose companies have been through multiple re-orgs and they're nervous, they want to make themselves as valuable as they can to their companies. >> michelle eppley says she's seen a 15% increase in business since this time last year, those are just the clients who can afford lessons which are more than $100 an hour. eppley says the interest in accent reduction is much higher than that.

meanwhile, doren and her students will continue working both on their skills and their accents, hoping the message hire me is eventually communicated loud and clear. in chicago, karina sohn fox news. >> gregg: to find the stories, log on to foxnews.com click the red on the job hunt link at the top of the home page to find an interactive map and when you click on a city you'll find the employment stories we have a done in that area. again at foxnews.com and click the red on the job hunt link at the top of the page. so what did it take to secure the biggest party in the world last night? of course, we're talking about time square. fox news got exclusive behind the scenes access to the fbi operations as they worked with police to keep an eye on the clouds and never before seen look next.

>> now, fox news is going where cameras have never been allowed before. behind the scenes with the fbi on new year's eve here in new york city and not just in time square. katherine harerridge is here wi the incredible story. >> we had some sites so top secret we can't even tell you where they are. long before the ball dropped. >> seven, six. >> agents are synchronizing their watches at the first of many briefings. >> if you see something

suspicious-- >> this is a jount terrorism task force, jttf intelligence hub. 100 fbi agents and analysts are on the ground. 40 different security intelligence agencies with one mission. >> if you attack something, i want you to think, where, when and why you would attack that and take that mindset and start looking around. >> fox news is given inprecedented access. for the first time cameras embedded with during one of the highest profile events of the year when everything is under the microscope. >> with so many people these days with cell phones, youtube, twitter, something that happens is immediately broadcast to the world. >> it's a partnership with the n.y.p.d., its officers are the lead for security. >> you have special cameras, what do they do. >> cameras to access and some we can go close where they're working on the street and basically mean you're talking. >> right now we're on the west

side of the city where they pre-positioned emergency response teams in case there's an incident in time square, we've got hazmat teams, efforts collection and bomb techs. >> and line kit and bomb health. >> the bomb techings, n.y.p.d. often pair with the fbi using unmarked vehicles. robots for remote detonation and the dogs. this is n.y.p.d.'s detective who is retired, he's an explosives expert who checks out suspicious people. meanwhile, in an underground garage the s.w.a.t. teams stand ready with powerful weapons. >> this is an ma-41. >> what the fbi describes as hospitals in backpacks. >> if someone as profusely bleeding from a gunshot wound we can do minor surgical procedures with this material. >> back at the command center leads are coming in. >> we've got some things working on and got some teams out right now that are addressing some issues, can't us what it is.

>> '07 you heard that. >> on the edge of time square just outside the security zone shall the forward command center is working intelligence from the street. right now, there are three young men with backpacks who are raising concerns. >> they've brought them over, they interviewed them, determined they were carrying iranian passports. they did have visas, we're running the visas down now. >> within an hour authorities determined the men are students and pose no threat, but with sites like 253, they're taking no chances. >> i think that everybody is maybe more on edge due to recent events and that actually the crowd though is a little more subdued than usual. >> the fbi's job is done once the crowds have cleared, but there will be more leads to track down tomorrow. >> wow. i mean, i've never seen that before and i've often wondered about it. look, you saw a lot of stuff. is this anything we missed there? >> well, a kuccouple of things,t the thing that strikes me most

are the evidence response teams, pre-positioned outside of time square and you go into the trucks, like csi on wheels, dozens of swab kits and this is the type of equipment they were using for flight 253 on christmas day in detroit. the kits swab everything, as one of the agents, they just have to touch the surface one of the swabs and gets everything. >> gregg: you've covered this since 9/11, anything else surprise you about last night? >> well, the thing that surprised me the most is how much these people are hiding in plain sight. like, we would go along the street and pass a building and you may have passed it dozens of times before, but what you don't know is that ten flights up is a joint terrorism task force and that's the secret you've got to be close to the action and close to the action. >> gregg: you haven't slept for a while. >> haven't slept for a while. >> gregg: thank you so much for something that none of us have ever seen before. katherine herridge.

and it was take three for michael bloomberg here in new york city, taking the oath of office for a third time and calling his new term, a quote, special opportunity. you may recall the mayor was initially barred from running for a third term, but sought to change them. some big time controversy in the city and bloomberg won narrowly. and the owners of the nfl teams say their whole organization has gone green. fox news went to philadelphia to find out how the eagles are trying to help save the environment. that's coming up. 

>> a fox weather alert for much of the country 2010 kicking things off in a cold way. here is how it looked in north dakota, you see there, that's right, it says minus 22 degrees and that's not the only place where the mergery dropped, too. meteorologist janice dean has the weather story, jd? >> gregg, we start off the year of 2010 with a chilly start for much of the country. these are our overnight lows across the upper midwest of the the northern plains, and this arctic plunge is going to go as far south as florida. these are the lows across the northern plains and upper midwest, but we've really got the coldest air right now bottled up. minus 21, that's not with the

wind chill, that's actual temperature as we go overnight tonight. so, extremely dangerous wind chills. as i mentioned, this arctic plunge is going to fall as far south as florida, jacksonville 36 overnight tonight, lows in the 20's into next week. and this arctic chill is going to be with us for the next several days, early next week as well. the storm we are watching is the same system that brought us kind of a wintery mix for new year's eve, it's going to get its act together across the gulf of maine and bring quite a bit of snow across northern new england, upstate new york, where we've also got that lake effect snow happening. snow accumulations the next 24 hours, six to 12 inches and winds will bring blizzard-like conditions heading into the weekend, so people are asked to call ahead if you're picking someone up at the airport or dropping someone off. gregg, back to you. >> gregg: janice dean, thank you very much. whether you prefer paper or plastic you're going to have to

pay for it if you're buying groceries in washington d.c. governor engler today, the nation's capital became the first major city in the country to impose a fee for disposable paper or plastic bags. the damage, five cents a pop. the fees will go to a fund for cleaning up the anacostia river and a number of cities have outright ban on plastic bags or demands at that retailers collect them. the philadelphia eagles have been working very hard to be more green for a couple of years now. since 2007, the organization has taken a number of steps to decrease its carbon footprint. the eagles 11-4 record shows the team's effort on the practice field is paying off, but has their dedication to become more environmentally friendly deliver similar results. philadelphia eagles fans bleed green. >> e-a-g-l-e-s, eagles! >> one look at the players and you can see why. but the team's efforts to go

green extend way beyond their uniforms. >> initially it was about recycling, it was saving energy, it was trying to purchase a percentage of our energy from green sources and you know, we started with 10% and now we are 100% green energy. >> cristina lori and her husband jeffrey own the eagles and launched team green, a team-wide eagle effort from recycled cups and napkins at concession stands to signs and bins throughout lincoln financial field, the team even has its own forest where it plants trees to offset the carbon emitted from the team's air travel for road games. according to the eagles, conservation efforts are peaking paying off. >> we've estimated well over a million dollars over the course of four years. >> not even enough to pay even a rookie's salary.

hey, it's something. >> throughout their long history the eagles are no doubt what the owners and franchise want, that's a super bowl victory. team's ownership says there's more than one way to win vents we want to win on the field and want to win a super bowl ring and off the field. it's about giving back to the community as much as anything else, too. >> so what do the fans think? >> we've got to save the planet, save the environment. >> i think everybody should do it and take time. and everyone around the parking lot should be recycling more. >> it does make a difference. >> here i thought i was going to talk to guys like you and all were you going to say all i want is a win. >> oh, i do want a win. >> spoken like a true fan. one of the all-time greats bobby bowden, played and seminoles, florida beat 16th ranked west virginia in gator bowl. fans greeting bowden along a

short parade route in jacksonville. bowden announced his retirement after 34 seasons and 400 wins and leaving as college football's second winningest coach, congrats. a dispute in a nba locker room reportedly ended in two players pulling guns on each other. according to washington post, they were arguing over a gambling debt when he reached for a gun and crittendon reached for his own. they say that arenas did have one. drinking soda pop can get new trouble with your dentist for sure. change one to your truck is going to get you in trouble with the law. a high speed pop pursuant next.

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>> top stories coming up after we ring in the new year with our first hot pursuant of 2010. actually this is more of an ice cold refreshing pursuant, take a look at the dash cam video, from a police car in tennessee. that's a pickup truck that cops are chasing and they chained to the back of it, a stolen soda machine. at first glance it appears our suspect is baying coca-cola fan and cops say no, he was only interested on the cash on the inside when he yanked the thing from store.

the soda machine broke free and might be a good idea to wait a while before popping up the can. updating our top stories tonight the pakistan taliban claiming responsibility for the attack that killed seven cia employees in afghanistan. the taliban claims it got help from an agent who switched sides. radio talk show host rush limbaugh out of the hospital, two days after he suffered chest pains and doctors say tests revealed no signs of a heart attack or hea1attack or heart >> . >> on this day in 1942, countries from around the globe came together to create the forerunner to today's united nations. president franklin roosevelt and british prime minister winston churchill issued the historic declaration calling for democracy, free trade and arms reductions and representatives of 26 countries signed onto the document calling the declaration

by united nations. it came weeks after the japanese attacked pearl harbor which resulted in america's involvement of course in at that war. the united states, great britain and the soviet union agreed to use all resources to defeat the three major axis powers, italy, germany and japan. in their agreement the leaders sewed the seeds for the modern united nations right here in new york city when they promised to ensure life, liberty and of course, keeping the peace 67 years ago today. and this just in, millions of americans will not lose their fox television stations, newscorp the parent of this network and time warner reached a deal to keep fox broadcast on the air. no words of the agreement, newscorp demand add fee $1 a subscriber to keep local fox stations on time warner. that's the fox report for january 1st, 2010. i'm gregg jarrett for shepard smith. thanks for havinus